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Wasn't nearly as bad...it's usually more cringeworthy...unless it's Ken Levine, that's always awesome.
Terrible hype video, and I wish Randy would stop saying this is a sequel to Aliens.
Look, I'm all for a developer setting it in the same universe and getting things down to the smallest details (which Gearbox has done so well here), but say Colonial Marines is on par and/or a direct sequel to a classic action thriller with brains, when it's clearly just a fan-fiction shooter is just screaming absolute nonsense.
I'll pick it up, undoubtedly, but it's not exactly going in with my DVD collection.
Look, I'm all for a developer setting it in the same universe and getting things down to the smallest details (which Gearbox has done so well here), but say Colonial Marines is on par and/or a direct sequel to a classic action thriller with brains, when it's clearly just a fan-fiction shooter is just screaming absolute nonsense.
I'll pick it up, undoubtedly, but it's not exactly going in with my DVD collection.
@JohnApocalypse Seriously.
Jim, I didn't really get that vibe about meeting Ridley Scott though that might be because I was wondering why that guy was wearing a fucking fedora inside and why the camera showed his hands. The vibe I took away from this was we are trying to make guys who look like they could be managers at Radioshack look cool with these neat intros, oh, and authenticity and Aliens and facial hair.
Jim, I didn't really get that vibe about meeting Ridley Scott though that might be because I was wondering why that guy was wearing a fucking fedora inside and why the camera showed his hands. The vibe I took away from this was we are trying to make guys who look like they could be managers at Radioshack look cool with these neat intros, oh, and authenticity and Aliens and facial hair.
So...this is authentic because it's set on a colony that was vaporized at the end of the film?
Because it features new "mutated" Alien types specifically for gameplay purposes, as opposed to the simple Queens / warriors featured in the movies?
Because they introduce events to "explain" Alien 3's plothole-filled opening?
Gearbox and Randy, please. Stop bullshitting, because the only people who actually believe you are the moderators on the GBX forums.
Because it features new "mutated" Alien types specifically for gameplay purposes, as opposed to the simple Queens / warriors featured in the movies?
Because they introduce events to "explain" Alien 3's plothole-filled opening?
Gearbox and Randy, please. Stop bullshitting, because the only people who actually believe you are the moderators on the GBX forums.
The more they show of this game the more it looks like Gearbox is trying to convince themselves that this game isn't bad fan-fiction.
The more they show of this game the more it looks like Gearbox is trying to convince themselves that this game isn't bad fan-fiction.
Goddamn, it's like all the internet's pessimism and loathing has been temporarily concentrated into a single article page.
So authentic it is, there is no female protagonist. Pitchford should go work where he truly belongs. A used car lot.
Evidently it's impossible to tell a story set in the Alien universe focusing on the badass Marines, because that means a non-soldier woman isn't in it, and evidently the universe implodes if that that's the case and tons of fans naysay in threads about an intrinsically badass game... Because a separate story about soldiers in space is evidently supposed to be about women.
There should be a Ripley type character in this game, just saying. Just because there isn't doesn't mean I'm not still really looking forward to this game and found the multiplayer tidbit that I played to be good fun.
@Arttemis: I know where you're coming from, but if you watch Aliens, the Colonial Marines aren't the stars, it's Ripley. I actually don't mind the main character being a guy - the Dark Horse comics were full of male protagonists - but Cpl. Winter doesn't bring anything to the table, in the same way an outsider like Ripley did.
What if Aliens didn't have Ripley? What if we just focused on the Colonial Marines?
It wouldn't have half the themes it did, and it's not imagine the results since every movie that rips off Aliens doesn't have that central character - just a bunch of people running around and screaming while they wave their guns in the air...which is just about every SyFy weekend movie ever made.
Personally, the issue is not about female protagonists. It's about having an interesting central character.
@Tim: I'm pessimistic because this latest version of A:CM is a stripped down effort. If you read about their original intentions, it's hard not be a bit wary of what they've created since then.
What if Aliens didn't have Ripley? What if we just focused on the Colonial Marines?
It wouldn't have half the themes it did, and it's not imagine the results since every movie that rips off Aliens doesn't have that central character - just a bunch of people running around and screaming while they wave their guns in the air...which is just about every SyFy weekend movie ever made.
Personally, the issue is not about female protagonists. It's about having an interesting central character.
@Tim: I'm pessimistic because this latest version of A:CM is a stripped down effort. If you read about their original intentions, it's hard not be a bit wary of what they've created since then.
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